James Farr (animator)

James Farr (born 1979, 44 years old) is a freelance animator and animation director based at present in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He is known by the online community for his animated series Xombie and has spawned an illustrated novel, Xombie: Dead on Arrival, and comic book series published by Devil's Due, Xombie: Reanimated.

His films are popular on Newgrounds, where they have over 1 billion views.

His portfolio includes work for Epic Level entertainment, New Line Cinema, GeekRescue.com and the Oklahoma City Blazers.

Xombie tells the story of a little girl named Zoe, who washes ashore years after a zombie plague has wiped out most life on Earth and replaced it with bloodthirsty reanimated versions of the planet's previous inhabitants.

She is saved from a swarm of zombies by Dirge, a "variant", a zombie who has retained their conscious mind and the ability to think like a human.

(According to the official website, the variants are called "xombies", but the term has yet to be used in the series itself, likely because it is pronounced the same way as "zombie".) Dirge takes it upon himself to perform one last good deed before his zombie body withers away and begins a journey to reunite Zoe with the few remaining live humans and save her from a gruesome death at the hands of the undead.

In 2007, Farr released a book displaying the events of the first saga of the series, entitled Xombie: Dead On Arrival.

There is also a six issue comic book series called Xombie: Reanimated, the first issue was released April 2007.

A third part of the intended Xombie trilogy, titled Death Warmed Over, was planned but put on indefinite hold due to an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign.

Released April 2008.

A live-action short film written and directed by Farr that imagines Pac-Man as a top-secret government project was released in April 2012.

An animated series mashing up Thomas & Friends and Transformers starring Farr's son Vector.

This includes a reborn, sixth episode released on March 31, 2021.

After the fourth episode, HIT Entertainment (later Mattel Television) sued Farr for plagiarism due to Thomas having a strict copyright protection.

Because of this the first four episodes were pulled from the internet and a fifth was made involving what could have been the fifth episode being halted by the "Fun Police" mid-production causing Vector to go on new adventures around the movie lot.

The series was replaced by The Sky-High City of Steampuff, which also featured trains that can turn into robots and lasted four episodes, with a fifth planned that has since been cancelled.

Before the sixth episode, Farr gets revenge on HIT Entertainment/Mattel Television from suing him for plagiarism by shutting HIT Entertainment/Mattel Television down, make the production team of HIT Entertainment/Mattel Television lose their jobs, and get Thomas out of this production to have strict copyright protection cut off.

In March 2017, Farr began a new series on YouTube titled Xombie: Dead Ahead, which is meant to be a continuation of the series, proclaimed as "the next chapter".

An animation series in production about the struggles of Kendra Call, a young cryptozoologist, haunted by ghoulish visions of her childhood, desperately searching for proof of monsters unknown to modern science.

Upon discovering a note addressed to her and written in riddles, she is flung into a secret war of monsters, to which the rest of the world is seemingly oblivious.

A prequel to the other Farr flash, Xombie.

It will be about the Egyptian xombie Nephthys and the origin of xombies.

Currently in development hell.

A 160-page manga from Tokyopop written by Farr.

On December 31, 2018, James Farr fully restored the Trainsformers, but in the Christmas special, generic trains (whose names were Cole, Quazar, Quark and Clunk) were added instead of Thomas characters.

This is probably due so HIT Entertainment will not sue James again.

Due to HIT Entertainment's loss of Thomas, Farr properly used Thomas for future videos after getting permission from Mattel.

As he later on remastered all 4 episodes, with the first 2 having different music due to copyright issues and in the last remastered episode Vector sent a message to the viewers saying that if James gets to 500,000 Subscribers, Vector can get Thomas back online.

in July 2020, it was announced the series would return with a new episode, The episode was released on March 31, 2021, as intended, without joke, although the release date was meant for April 1.

A mash-up of Doctor Who and Back to the Future, featuring the Eleventh Doctor, his companions Amy Pond and Rory Williams, the Judoon and Cowboy Daleks.

A mash-up of the Super Mario video game series and the film Ghostbusters.

A sequel to Super Mario Busters that is a mash-up of the Super Mario video game series and the sequel film Ghostbusters II.

A mash-up of the Super Mario video game series and the reboot film Ghostbusters.

A sequel to Super Mario Busters 2 that is a mash-up of the Super Mario video game series and the sequel film Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

A mash-up of the Super Mario video game series and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, featuring Koopa Troopas as the Turtles, Mario as the Shredder, Princess Daisy as April O'Neill, Mouser as Splinter and Luigi as Casey Jones.

A mash-up of the Nintendo video game series Super Smash Bros. and Star Wars.

There will be nine episodes in total, with the first three being based on the Original Trilogy, the second three being based on the Sequel Trilogy and the remaining three on the Prequel Trilogy.

A parody that features a kid dressed as a Xenomorph from the Alien series battling another kid dressed as a Predator from the Predator series on Halloween.

Despite this the first four episodes were brought back to the internet for fair use or remastered for the 10-year anniversary on April 19, 2019, TRAINS-FORMERS: Gauge of Extinction was made involving for Vector disregarding from going on new adventures around the movie lot and to get revenge to the Fun Police and bring Trainsformers back again.